Re: [orca-list] new linux distro, with apology to Robert Cole

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Have you tested this or are you conjecturing?  Just curious.  I remember
seeing this on some list (might've been this one) and then subsequent
e-mails claimed it caused a high mem usage situation to arise.  I've
personally never tried it.  

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Peter
Vágner
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 11:49 AM
To: Kyle
Cc: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] new linux distro, with apology to Robert Cole

Hello,
Another solution for those who are switching between gnome and console
frequently and don't need both generating sound output at the same time just
came to my mind.
As a part of the pulseaudio there is an app called pasuspender.
So you can run espeakup while the pulseaudio is running like this:
pasuspender espeakup
pulseaudio will free the soundcard and as long as espeakup exits it will
regain the control.

Greetings

Peter

On 09.09.2013 18:36, Kyle wrote:
> According to Alex Midence:
> # Espeakup will keell over if you have Pulse Audio enabled unless you 
> know of # a modification I haven't heard of.  If so, do tell, please.  
> I had to cherry # pick my Debian installation to make sure it didn't 
> get installed when I put # gnome on it.  This way, I retained console 
> speech.
>
> Yes, this is the experience I have on most sound cards. I have found, 
> however, that usually, if you wait for speech or other sounds in GNOME 
> to stop before switching to the text console, Espeakup and other 
> applications that don't use pulseaudio begin working. I have also 
> noticed recently that applications that use Pulseaudio will cut off 
> non-pulse applications, but then as soon as the Pulse application 
> stops, the non-pulse application seems to begin working again. I 
> noticed this on a very old computer where I had Pulseaudio installed 
> along with Sox, and I was using Espeakup. If Espeakup was speaking 
> while I started playing a sound file with Sox, Sox complained about 
> the sound card being busy. However, if I stopped Espeakup long enough 
> for the file to start playing, Espeakup would just refuse to speak 
> while the sound card was busy and then start again once the file 
> stopped playing. I do agree that something better needs to be worked 
> out, but it does seem better than it used to be. For now though, it 
> may be best to reserve Espeakup for the command line spin and anything 
> else that doesn't normally benefit from the use of Pulseaudio.
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/

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